The rumor had been bouncing from e-mail inbox to e-mail inbox among Penn State fans the past couple of weeks. The e-mail said that JoePa was very ill and that the Outback Bowl would be his last game.

Sue Paterno, JoePa's wife, first condemned the rumor on Monday, saying that it is not true and that her husband is fine, according to fightonstate.com. And their daughter added that there is no plan for JoePa to retire after the Jan. 1 bowl game, according to fightonstate.com.

On Tuesday, when asked about retiring Paterno said, "We have a lot of fun together. I don’t see any reason for getting out of it yet. We had a big problem in State College last week. Somebody said that I was down at Hershey Hospital. I was chewing out somebody for being late for a meeting. It’s ridiculous. I don’t know when I’ll get out, I honestly don’t know. I haven’t even thought about it yet.”